Missing 23 players has nothing to do with it. OSU last night could only score 3 points missing their best player and starting QB.
More than that, it confirms my thoughts that Georgia should have been in the playoffs instead of Texas. They had only 1 loss to a team not named Alabama in the past 4 years. National champs two years in a row, undefeated last year and then a 3 point loss to Bama in the SEC title game. Does anyone seriously thing Texas is a better team that Georgia?
Hell no. Texas is in cuz they beat a QB-less Alabama team 5 months ago.
Georgia lost at the wrong time . DidntvTexas beat Alabama? Didn’t Alabama need a miracle to beat Auburn . Fourth and goal and needed 30 yards?
Per ESPN:
True about Georgia.
College football has become a joke, period. I have not watched one minute of college football once the whistle blew on the Apple Cup, and I don't plan on watching any until the Cougs kick off in 2024.
I feel the same way. I haven't watched any of the bowl games this season. Every major head coach is bitching about the system now, so something is going to give soon.
I’ve watched about 20 minutes total. Don’t even know what the scores were in most of em. Complacency has set in with CFBs largest audience…which isn’t Tuscaloosa pig farmers. I suspect the playoff ratings will be fine for now but all of these other bowl games ratings have to be taking a massive dump. I’d expect regular season games to start following suit as early as next year.
I havent watched any games. Its a joke opt outs transfers etc...
I have a solution. Backload these NIL agreements. Small payments during the season, the rest comes AFTER the season, You don't play, we don't pay.
None of this shit is going to happen. These schools are just fine tossing money around. The only thing I see potentially is moving the portal window to after the bowl games to try and discourage opt outs before. While the contract stuff sounds nice it’s not happening.
Would a player agree to any of that? Better question is why would any school that has boosters ready to bankroll the roster impose any of those conditions?
Once you get to this point it’s hard to rein it in, not about being negative. Contracts won’t happen because they don’t need to. If a school tries to slap a contract on a kid he’s just going to opt to go elsewhere. It’s to a point of no return.
Had ESPN not punished a team for losing their QB (who likely wins the Heisman), I bet a lot more players play.
Well the boosters might prefer to have players that will stick around for the bowl game.
Bowl games are in a death spiral. Along with college football as we knew it. It’s all about the playoff.
So they have some assurance that their investment will resch its potential.
If a prospective employer offers you a contract that requires you to payback a signing bonus if you within a year, and a different prospective employer offers you the same terms, but doesn’t require you to payback the signing bonus, which offer are you taking?
Yeah but if they quit there goes their money for at least a semester.
You know Gibby, F-you. I was simply musing. Note "fantasyland" in my post, All you have to say is "Hey Loyal, interesting concept but it wouldn't fly". But no, yet another insult about another posters intelligence.
I feel like 1 to 1 was how NIL was envisioned, but of course someone figured out how to game the system and created the collective system, and as per usual the spineless, gutless, nutless NCAA stood by and watched it happen.
Already did that. Go back and read. The concept is not interesting or workable.
Uh, no you did not. "Unless already did that" refers to the fact that all you do is post insults and negative comments. Give a post number (upper right hand corner) if you care to clarify, Or don't. I tire of engaging with you,
Well there's a concept. You mean NIL $ and free trucks should coincide with actual NIL activities? Man you fell off the 'ol turnip truck,
Well thanks for the effort, although I don't really think any of those posts address what I said.
Not going to make the argument that Georgia was in the same position as FSU in terms of opt-outs, but the only absences that made the news were Bowers and Mims. Bowers is THE offense and Mims is the best OL; his injury cost Georgia the SECCG (that and a bad 4th & 4 "catch" call by the stripes). But Georgia also lost something like a dozen and a half contributors to the portal, some of whom (eg, star LB Jermaine Dumas-Johnson) were #1 teamers. McConkey, the only other real offensive weapon, was coming off a sprain (and still scored).
